A carol for Christmas - Stanford, Charles Villiers

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"Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 3], Opus 67, No. 1. The text is sacred, but written and published as part of the set of secular partsongs."

⌛ Epoche → Spätromantik ◈ Genre → 4 ♬ Besetzung → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Mittelstufe (Mittelstufe I)

¶ Sprache → Englisch

Stimmen 4

Instrumente A cappella

Seiten 12

CPDL Nr. 79499

Bearbeiter David Anderson

Veröffentlicht 2024-03-12

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Sweet Music, sweeter far Than any song is sweet: Sweet Music heavenly rare, Mine ears, (O peers!) doth greet. Yon gentle flocks, whose fleeces, pearl’d with dew, Resemble heaven, whom golden drops make bright: Listen, O listen, now;— O not to you Our pipes make sport to shorten weary night:— But voices most divine Make blissful harmony: Voices that seem to shine, For what else clears the sky? Tunes can we hear, but not the singers see; The tune’s divine, and so the singers be. Lo! how the firmament Within an azure fold The flock of stars hath pent, That we might them behold. Yet from their beams proceedeth not this light, Nor can their crystals such reflection give. What then doth make the elements so bright? The heavens are come down on earth to live. But hearken to the song: “Glory to glory’s King! And peace all men among!” These queristers do sing. Angels they are, as also (Shepherds) He, Whom in our fear we do admire to see. “Let not amazement blind Your souls,” (said he) “annoy: To you and all mankind, My message bringeth joy. For lo! the world’s great Shepherd now is born, A blesséd Babe, an Infant full of power: After long night, up-risen is the morn, Renowning Bethlem in the Saviour. Sprung is the perfect day, By prophets seen afar: Sprung is the mirthful May, Which Winter cannot mar.” In David’s city doth this Sun appear, Clouded in flesh;— yet, Shepherds! sit we here?